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A Sonnet from Carthage: Garcilaso de la Vega and the New Poetry of Sixteenth-Century Europe
A Sonnet from Carthage Garcilaso de la Vega and the New Poetry of SixteenthCentury Europe
Author: Richard Helgerson
In 1492 the Spanish humanist Antonio de Nebrija proclaimed that "language has always been the companion of empire." Taking as his touchstone a wonderfully suggestive sonnet that Garcilaso de la Vega wrote in 1535 from the neighborhood of ruined Carthage in North Africa, Richard Helgerson examines how the companionship of language and emp...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780812240047
ISBN-10: 0812240049
Publication Date: 4/2/2007
Pages: 144
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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